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i found this on a "weird movie" list & was intrigued - i got what i wanted, i guess, haha. i actually almost turned it off only about 5-10 minutes or so into it; it started out rough. but i kept watching & somehow i ended up getting quite into it towards the end, haha. it's hilariously awful & I'm embarrassed for Sean Gunn that this is listed in his imdb. but i'm honestly impressed with how they managed to change but also stick to the original storyline. i would never recommend this to anyone i like & quite frankly i'm surprised it didn't give me nightmares, but i'm also not sad i watched it.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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"A word with me? How about a word for me? Or better yet, how about a word for you? Let's see, a word for Tyrone Capulet. Boofball. D**kbag. Peon. Freak. C**ksucker. S**thead, ratcatcher, geek. Loser, anus, fruitcake, lunk, fiddlef**ker, dweeb, feeb. C**t. Assf**k; ah, that one's close to the mark. How 'bout guinea, schmuck, or p**syfart?" 👩❤️👨
Someone tell Baz Luhrmann to step aside, the Troma team are careening through Shakespeare in the 1990s, and with no-holds Bard! This transgressive toilet humour take on the tragic star-crossed lovers is tasteless, obscene and unabashedly schlock, making for a hilarious and absurd 107 minutes, thanks in no small part to its pitch-perfect screenplay that never shies from a crude joke. Rediscovered by contemporary audiences as it marks the first feature for associate director James Gunn, working alongside the titan of trash Lloyd Kaufman, the movie plays fast and loose with its famous source material, pawning 16th century Verona for modern-day Manhattan, iambic pentameter for far more colourful language and the play's chorus for a gruff and tough Lemmy. Leading players Will Keenan and Jane Jensen deliver surprisingly sincere performances as the titular couple, the supporting cast are better than they have any right to be and keep an eye out for a future Marvel Cinematic Universe spacefarer in the film's first act. A psychotronic production if there ever were one, this feast of guilty pleasures is rounded out by an underground punk rock and metal soundtrack, revised ending and softcore sex, and it "totally sucks!"
6/10 incestuous mutant children.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/12/23
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Girişteki Lemmy (Motörhead) bile kurtaramaz. Shakespeare mezarında iki defa ters dönmüştür.
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01/23/23
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There's weird for the sake of being entertaining and then there's weird simply for the sake of being weird. Unfortunately, "Tromeo and Juliet" falls under the latter half of that statement. I've been a fan of Troma films for a long time. From "Bloodsucking Freaks" to "Class of Nuke 'em High," I've been impressed by their resistance to both normalcy and complacency. I love the fact that they have pushed every envelope set before them. They were one of the best cult motion picture makers of their age. However, by the time the mid-Nineties rolled around, they were starting to wear a bit thin.
Some of the girls are cute, some of the jokes are uproarious, and some of the film is enjoyable. It was a stroke of genius to hire metal god Lemmy Kilmister as the film's narrator and both Will Keenan and Sean Gunn are two of the best actors featured in a Troma production during the decade. The idea of warping one of Shakespeare's finest plays to fit the Troma mold is another winner. Sadly, the promise just doesn't live up to the premise.
Too often I found myself sighing, wondering when the film was going to end. The ribald humor that actually worked arrived fewer and farther between as the movie wore on. The climax felt like a mishmash of good concepts crammed together to form a finished picture that was significantly less than the sum of its parts. I hate to say it, but by 1996, Troma's best days were behind them.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/28/23
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If Shakespeare were alive and working today, I don't know that his work would be all that dissimilar from this.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/15/23
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It's Shakespeare but not as you know it
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/01/23
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